Leaders of Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark and a co-chairman of the forum’s Central Working Committee, Obong Victor Attah, have asked people of the region to be patient and give the Federal Government time to respond to the 16-point demands presented to President Muhammadu Buhari, at last Tuesday’s meeting.

THERE is the concept of land grants for specific purposes. The land reverts back to the owners at the end of such use. 1861 Lagos became a Crown colony with a Governor, and an advisory legislative council. 1866, Lagos became part of the West African colonies with capital in Freetown. 1872 West African colonies were divided into two colonies, Sierra Leone and Gold Coast colonies. Lagos was placed under the Gold Coast colony. In 1886,

SUCCESSIVE Federal governments have been sustained on a tripod of Deceit, Denial, and Delusion(3Ds). A philosophy that has undermined all the fundamentals of good government and governance viz.- National Planning, Economic Resources management, National Security, Education etc. etc.

The United States has a unique Electoral College through which the winner of the presidential election is chosen.

Chinese Consul General in Nigeria, Chao Xiaoliang said yesterday that China’s economy is better than expected, based on a recent release by Chinese State Statistics Bureau of the latest macroeconomic statistics for 2016.

The federal government and power investors, electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) and electricity generation companies, (GENCOs), may be heading for a showdown over the government’s non-fulfilment of the various agreements reached at the inception of power privatisation three years ago.

APC candidate, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has promised traders in the state a lucrative micro credit scheme, if elected. Akeredolu made this known, yesterday, while meeting with market men and women at the Olukayode International Shopping Complex, Akure, the state capital. Akeredolu, who was represented at the meeting by the Director General of his campaign […]

Dr. John Danfulani, an outspoken critic of the government of Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, yesterday, walked out of Kaduna Prison on bail after 13 days in custody.

THE National Universities Commission, NUC, yesterday, awarded a certificate of recognition for the establishment of the Borno State University, Maiduguri.

At least over 15 passengers, including drivers of Primero Bus Services, operator of Bus Raid Transit, BRT, have been hospitalised while 12 BRT buses were vandalised, following attack in the early hours of yesterday, in Lagos, when miscreants and commuters took to the road along Ikorodu Road to protest the ban of LAGBUS Asset Management, operator of the red buses from plying the BRT, corridor along the axis.

ABOUT seven persons were reported to have sustained serious injuries and are now receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital, following a clash between the people of Ndi Okereke Abam in Ovukwu autonomous community of Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State and herdsmen.

Kogi State government has refuted a rumour that Governor Yahaya Bello was dead, saying he was on a two-week break abroad, which was approved by the state House of Assembly.

THE Ijaw People Development Initiative, IPDI, yesterday, advised armed agitators in the Niger Delta region to separate personal issues affecting Niger Deltans, including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, case against former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, from the genuine agitation of the region.

Worried about the state of medical practice in Nigeria, Nigerian doctors have sent a save our soul (SOS) message to President Mohammadu Buhari on the need to urgently reconstitute the Board of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, in order to save medical practice in the country.

Burns and plastic surgeons at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi Lagos, NOHL, have said that prevention of burns remains a better alternative to allowing a burns injury to occur as treatment cost is out of reach of majority of Nigerians.